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Assessment of tumor heterogeneity: an emerging imaging tool for clinical practice?
- Source :
- Insights into Imaging
- Publisher :
- Springer Nature
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Abstract
- Tumor spatial heterogeneity is an important prognostic factor, which may be reflected in medical imagesImage texture analysis is an approach of quantifying heterogeneity that may not be appreciated by the naked eye. Different methods can be applied including statistical-, model-, and transform-based methods.Early evidence suggests that texture analysis has the potential to augment diagnosis and characterization as well as improve tumor staging and therapy response assessment in oncological practice.This review provides an overview of the application of texture analysis with different imaging modalities, CT, MRI, and PET, to date and describes the technical challenges that have limited its widespread clinical implementation so far. With further efforts to refine its application, image texture analysis has the potential to develop into a valuable clinical tool for oncologic imaging. TEACHING POINTS : • Tumor spatial heterogeneity is an important prognostic factor. • Image texture analysis is an approach of quantifying heterogeneity. • Different methods can be applied, including statistical-, model-, and transform-based methods. • Texture analysis could improve the diagnosis, tumor staging, and therapy response assessment.
- Subjects :
- Prognostic factor
medicine.medical_specialty
Computer science
Tumor Staging
Review
computer.software_genre
Tumor heterogeneity
Clinical Practice
Therapy response
Imaging Tool
PET
Image texture
Texture analysis
medicine
Fractal analysis
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Medical physics
Data mining
computer
Neuroradiology
Cancer
CT
MRI
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18694101
- Volume :
- 3
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Insights into Imaging
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7b77af6705d618fc86480eb975e553a9
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s13244-012-0196-6